r/todayilearned • u/MyKinkyCountess • 4d ago
TIL that Michelangelo spent two months hiding in the underground chamber while evading a death sentence ordered by the Pope
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/oct/31/michelangelo-secret-sketches-under-church-in-florence-open-to-public
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u/Landlubber77 4d ago
The Pope should've ordered a death paragraph, Michelangelo would've had to have stayed down there four, possibly five times longer.